Cangzhou, Nanpi.

Ji Yi, who arrived here, did not go to Tianjin Prefecture immediately, but stayed in the inn in Nanpi County for many days.

The three of them are not only for issuing an imperial edict, but just need to recite an imperial edict and have an advisor. Why send high-ranking officials like Ji Yi and Wu Haowen? And also send two at one time? These two, at least Ji Yi, are aiming to dig out the capitalist corner of Wu Haogu.

During his days in Nanpi, Nanpi Inn was just like a market. People who came and went to Tianjin were rich. They all came to offer gifts to Ji Yi! These capitalists were very sensitive, so why didn’t they know that Ji Yi was the next commander of the Hailu Maritime Market? At that time, the Maritime Market in the world, except for the Jiehe Maritime Market, would be under the control of others. If you want to do trade, can you deal with him well?

Ji Yi also got along with these merchants. He was originally a merchant and was in charge of the Jingdong Maritime Transportation Office. When he was a Hebian Road Transportation Office, he sent orders to these Tianjin merchants many times. The checkout was easy and he was willing to give more deposits. But he made the merchants in Tianjin a lot of money! Even now, in the hands of the mortar factories, red brick factories, iron mills, wood factories, shipyards, horse dealers, and Tianjin Weapons Institute, there were still a large stack of orders for the Hebian Road Transportation Office in the hands of the Tianjin marsh factories, red brick factories, iron factories, and the Tianjin Weapons Institute.

Moreover, before leaving Daming Mansion, Ji Yi transferred more than 50% of the deposits through Daming Mansion's Tianjin Bank and JD Bank.

Just for such a God of Wealth, everyone must come to Nanpi to pay a visit!

Today is Laba Festival, and as the end of the year approaches, another group of Tianjin merchants have arrived. Ji Yi held a banquet in the hall of Nanpi Pavilion.

The banquet hall was very spacious. Incense candles as thick as arms of children produced in Tianjin were placed around, swaying in the room, swaying with a faint fragrance. The servants brought by Ji Yi from the tens of days were served by the servants and girls, serving tea and pouring wine.

Ji Yi did not wear official clothes, but was dressed in gorgeous clothes. In every move, she looked like a rich and unlimited businessman. Those who didn't know would think he was also the head of a wealthy businessman.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the rich merchants in the hall began to discuss the establishment of the Yandi Republic.

The hot spots in rural Yandi are now the division of land and the republic system. In addition to the about 3,000 knight households that already possessed the Knight Manor in Jiehe County, there are nearly 7,000 knight households that need to be resettled or transferred (some knights who are loyal to Wu Haogu have manors on the land of Hejian Prefecture, Qingzhou and Cangzhou, and these manors must be replaced to Yandi). In addition, nearly 20,000 military households in the palace also need to be granted land to be resettled.

The two combined, more than 14.5 million mu of land were used. In addition, the land allocated to the officers and the little tyrants in Yandi land exceeded 22 million mu. Almost all the farmland and forest land in Yanshan Prefecture and Wuqing County were allocated! Not only did the land that originally belonged to the Khitans and Han bureaucratic landlords who were loyal to the Great Liao or remained neutral, but even many of the manors of Yandi land who had defected to Wuhaogu were divided in Yanshan Prefecture and Wuqing County.

In order to compensate for their losses, Wu Haogu also took out the industries in Tianjin Shangshi that were originally Khitan nobles and the Han family in Yutian (Tianjin has always adhered to the principle of protecting private property) and allocated them to the Yandi tyrants who lost their land during the land reform.

Although the cost of this feudal land reform is high, the benefits are still very obvious. In the shortest time, Wu Haogu built a military group with relatively low maintenance costs and loyal to himself! At the same time, in Yanshan Prefecture, Tianjin Prefecture established a local force loyal to itself. It also built a feudal military group that could check and balance with Tianjin Haoshang Group.

In fact, the relationship between military landlords and industrial and commercial capitalists is not necessarily a life-and-death relationship. Although in later textbooks, the latter would revolutionize the former. In fact, the revolution was short and the coexistence and prosperity took a long time. Moreover, the result of the revolution was not necessarily the bourgeoisie to eliminate military landlords. For example, the Jean-Ker landlords in Germany were not completely destroyed until the end of World War II.

However, there are still many Tianjin merchants who are dissatisfied with the republic rules formulated by Wu Haogu, because in the process of formulating republic rules, Wu Haogu changed the Senate of Tianjin's Chamber of Commerce into a two-city council.

The members of the Supreme Court of the Tianjin Municipal Council are no longer recommended by the "sponsor" of Tianjin Commercial City, but instead recommended 100 members of the top 70 tax payments in Tianjin, as well as the top 30 academies in Tianjin, and the Academy.

The members of Tianjin were elected by officers, taxpayers (more than a mercenary’s expenses required) and scholars (doctoral fellows, graduates of the academy and colleges) and other Tianjin citizens with citizenship, according to the area where they settled, with a total of 100.

In addition, because the Tianjin Municipal Council has no major military affairs to discuss, the upper and lower houses of the parliament have only nominal differences. They hold meetings in the same venue, and the voting rights of the members are exactly the same.

In other words, the power of the wealthy merchants in Tianjin was weakened in this Yandi Republic movement! And a considerable number of the wealthy merchants in Tianjin were derived from the generals and nobles of Kaifeng Prefecture. How could they support Wu Haogu in confrontation with the Song Dynasty?

A manager of a famous Xiang family suddenly slapped the table: "What is the world for the public? It is obviously because of ulterior motives. I want to learn from Li Yuanhao as the emperor. I am afraid that we will oppose it, so I will still hold the discussions of the two houses of Luoshi in the commercial city, and citizens will participate in politics... Our famous Xiang family will not republic with such traitors!"

"Oh, a good Tianjin city is about to be destroyed! In the past, we were able to make money because the court took care of us? Now Wu Haogu wants to fight against the world with a corner, and there is no need to wait for the imperial army to arrive. As long as a decree is issued, trade will be interrupted, and we will be waiting to die of poverty!"

"Yes, Master Ji, our Pan family's son-in-law has already spoken, and he doesn't recognize Wu Haogu as his son-in-law! The Pan family's industries in Tianjin are all about to withdraw. We will follow the bachelor's in the future. Will the bachelor's go to Xiuzhou? Our Pan family must follow us."

"It's better to go to Xiuzhou. The Jiangnan Water Town has been a prosperous place since ancient times. Now the Central Plains is in chaos. Let's take the thirty-six strategies first!"

Today, those who came to flatter Ji Yi were of course all businessmen who were preparing to withdraw from Tianjin. Even if they did not retreat, they would retreat openly and secretly. And everyone was optimistic about Shanghai, which had not yet opened! Look at the map to tell how good that land was. At the mouth of the Yangtze River, there is also a Wusong River connected to the South Canal. Moreover, it is surrounded by the richest fish and rice town, enough to support a million-level population.

The most important thing is that Shanghai is far away from the battlefield in the north!

There you can do business with peace of mind, and there is no need to worry about the sudden invasion of the imperial court or the Khitan army.

Of course, Shanghai has a huge advantage, which does not mean that Tianjin has no advantage. War is also a big deal! Tianjin's military industry, northern goods, cattle and horse market, woodware, shipbuilding (there are cheap wood supply around Tianjin), iron smelting, wool spinning and other industries are all difficult for Shanghai to fight against.

However, today, the biggest advantage of Tianjin City over Shanghai is the navy!

Shortly after Ji Yi arrived in Nanpi, he received a report from Haizhou that the Naval Academy and Yuntai Academy General Hall in Haizhou were moving! Among them, the Naval Academy will be moved to Suzhou City (Dalian City) on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Although Ji Yi had instructed her confidants in Haizhou to retain naval talents as much as possible, Wu Haogu had controlled the Hailu Maritime Control Department for too long, and they were all confidants. In addition, the two maritime merchant families, the Wu family and the Hua family in Haizhou, were unwilling to see the Ji family dominant, so they both chose to support Wu Haogu.

These days, Ji Yi has not seen a member of the Wu family or the Hua family in Nanpi. So Ji Yi knows that Wu Haogu can almost certainly get most of the naval power of the Hailu Maritime Control Department!

But Ji Yi will still get the seeds of establishing the "Ji Family Navy"!

When Ji Yi was feeling proud, there was a sudden commotion at the entrance of the hall, and then he saw Wu Haogu's younger brother Wu Haowen and Yang Jian running in in panic, with several armed guards around him.

"Wang Dada, Mr. Yang, you guys are..."

"It's broken, it's broken!" When Wu Haowen heard Ji Yi's question, he almost cried, "My elder brother is here!"

"What?" Ji Yi was stunned, "Your brother? Wu Chongdao? How is that possible? He is not afraid that we will detain him?"

Yes, this is Nanpi, or the world of the Song Dynasty. The commander of Cangzhou Zhang Yong also had an imperial guard under the command of the imperial guard, hundreds of soldiers and thousands of useful soldiers.

Well, there are so many people, it’s enough to hold a Hongmen banquet.

"What a damn!" Yang Jian, who followed Wu Haowen, cried, "Scholar Ji thought Wu Haogu was a fool, would he be here?"

By the way! As soon as Ji Yi pressed her forehead, why didn’t her mind turn around? Woo Haogu wouldn’t lead troops here?

"How many people did he bring?"

"I don't know!" Yang Jian said tremblingly, "I only know that I can't see the edge at a glance... I'm all cavalry, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands?"

"What!? Tens of thousands..." Ji Yi was also scared this time, "He, he, he is going to rebel? Yuyang Feng is coming in agitation?"

"Probably, probably right? Brother Yizhi, let's run away quickly?" Wu Haowen said while crying, "What should I do? My family is really a rebel, and I'm going to destroy the clan..."

Ji Yi glared at him, "Why are you panic? He is your biological brother..."

Yes, your brother is going to rebel successfully, aren’t you the prince? What a cry? Clan extermination or something, it will only be destroyed if the rebellion fails! And you are not in Kaifeng Prefecture now, and it is your brother Wu Haode who is unlucky to be killed!

"Let's go!" Ji Yi said, "Let's go up to the city and take a look!"

"No, won't you run away?" Yang Jian asked.

In the hall, a group of wealthy merchants who had just finished speaking bad things about Wu Haogu were also looking at Ji Yi.
Chapter completed!